Our mission

To represent speech and language therapists and support workers, promote excellence in practice and influence health, education and social care policies.

To deliver our mission we aim to:

• Represent
  

  • the interests of speech and language therapists and support workers and provide a voice locally, nationally and internationally

• Influence and lobby
  

  • governments and others to shape policy so that issues concerning the profession are reflected in public policy and people with communication, eating, drinking or swallowing difficulties receive optimum care

• Support and protect
  

  • the value of a profession whose members deliver quality services to meet diverse needs
  • the professional interests of speech and language therapists and support workers

• Develop and educate
  

  • speech and language therapists professionally and academically, building our resource of professional expertise and leadership
  • speech and language therapy and its professional practice through the use of evidence-based practice
  • speech and language therapy as an integral part of the modernised workforce across health, education and social care

• Build
  

  • a sustainable, member-focused, organisation with the capacity to deliver our mission effectively, efficiently and in accordance with our values
  • the systems, attitudes and resources to offer the best possible support and development to our staff